More populous than any other country on earth, China also occupies a unique place in our modern world for the continuity of its history and culture. In this sumptuously illustrated single-volume ...

The different approach in China is reinforced by regional asymmetry. The western powers for much of modern history were roughly the same size in terms of their economy and population. Not so for ...

An oral history project, “Planting Seeds,” considers the history and impact of an American Dance Festival program to train ...

Chinese from all walks of life look back at the how their lives have changed as a result of Deng's policies As China ...

Grant Rhode chronicle’s Admiral Shi Lang’s invasion of Taiwan in 1683 – far removed from modern ... decades, China’s armed forces are transferring and reverse-engineering history, drawing ...

This pioneering and evocative study takes the reader on a sensory journey through modern Chinese history, examining the ways in which the experience of scent and modernity have intertwined. 'Scents of ...

In the past few years, Xi’s forces have rounded up around a million Uyghurs and placed them in detention camps, and enforced ...

But the Taiwanese point to the same history to argue that they were not part of the modern Chinese state that was first formed after the revolution in 1911 - or the People's Republic of China that ...

Since 1949, China has been ruled by the Communist Party of China, also known as the Chinese Communist Party or CCP. Figure caption, The People's Republic of China was founded in 1949 when the ...

Marjorie Dryburgh works on the modern history of China, with specific interests in China’s relations with Japan before 1945, regional and urban histories, and the conventions and uses of life writing.

Article 34 of the Chinese Constitution states All citizens of the People’s Republic of China who have reached the age of 18, regardless of ethnicity, race, gender, occupation, family background ...

"The smooth and modern railway has put some of China's less well-known cultural ... a professor with the School of History at Nanjing University, told the Global Times. For people's daily commute ...